Arkansas Blog: Another hero passes

In the paid obituaries today was a notice of the death of Mrs. Imogene Brooks Brown, 92, of Little Rock, the first black nurse hired at Arkansas Children's Hospital.

She was, as the obit said, the "proud mother" of four children, one of them Minnijean Brown Trickey, a member of the Little Rock Nine who desegregated Central High School in 1957. The children were brave. So were their parents.

In an article written for the Arkansas Times in 1997 by another member of the Nine, Melba Patillo Beals, Trickey paid tribute to her parents, the late Robert and Imogene Brown.

They always conveyed to her that her value or well-being didn't depend on staying in Central. So when she was forced to leave in January 1958 after the now famous "chili incident", she went on to a productive and successful life without a defeatist attitude. Rather, she knew she had done her best.

Minnijean says the most important gifts from her parents were her father's sense of humor and her mother's way of reassuring her that all was well. "She kept the home fires burning in a way that let me know we could survive no matter what," Minnijean says.

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RIP, Mrs. Brown. Thank God you lived to see the beginning of a new and better world.

Posted by: durangokid | December 3, 2008 06:22 PM

durangokid, What's new and better? answer, Nothing!
Who's she a hero to?
All live and all die and nobody gonna remember.

It is still a big world.

Posted by: chasv | December 3, 2008 06:42 PM

chasv, what a jerk you are! She was a hero to many and obviously to her daugher. Go to the Central High Visitors Center some weekend and meet Mrs. Brown's granddaughter Spirit Trickey and you'll see what's "new and better." I've met Spirit - a person who truly lives up to her name, and a person who proudly carries her mother and grandmother's legacy with her. Your comments are shameful.

Posted by: Debra | December 3, 2008 07:53 PM

Debra,
Stay for awhile and you'll understand that chasv is the village idiot.

Posted by: kizzy | December 3, 2008 09:08 PM

Debra and kizzy. you don't the world does not revolve around central high...
No person is perfect.
I bet there are blacks in africa that is just as worthy of praise as this woman you say is.
Jesus is Lord. He is perfect!

Posted by: chasv | December 3, 2008 10:12 PM

God Bless Mrs. Brown, and ACH. WE, the people of Arkansas, have been blessed with your presence.

Posted by: MadCat | December 3, 2008 10:13 PM

I will say again, this editorial cartoon should win the Pulitizer.
Click on Cato

Posted by: Cato | December 3, 2008 10:21 PM

chasv, no one said the world revolved around Central High. No one said anyone was perfect. But, yes, you are correct that there are probably many people in Africa very worthy of praise. However, there is one person in Arkansas (you) who is not! Show a little respect and learn some better grammar skills.

Posted by: Debra | December 3, 2008 10:56 PM

chasv cannot be trained. In all his 93 years of life he's remained the same blank piece of clay only imprinted with his own made up twisted version of the Bible. He hates black people and gays and hopefully lives many miles away from either. He cannot be reformed or educated. If he said something nice about Mrs. Brown I'd fall over in my chair. His comments are to be expected and totally ignored.

When the Obama Change comes, it's will be the chasv types we'll be changing from. If his family had had a car in 1957, he'd probably be dead center in all the Central-National Guard-LR-9 pictures of the day. We must remember that Orval wasn't the only racist in Arkansas that year and many are still alive and pretending to be enlightened. At least chasv doesn't pretend.

Posted by: Deathbyinches | December 4, 2008 02:22 AM

At least chasv doesn't pretend.

Posted by: Deathbyinches

Thanks,
cv
I do not hate anyone!
God does, He loves the world but He hates unbelievers.

Posted by: chasv | December 4, 2008 10:43 AM

A couple of quick factual corrections for chasv:

First, Jesus was a man, not a god. He's a great example in so many ways, but he's dead now.

Second, God doesn't hate anyone because he doesn't exist. The source of the little voice in chasv's head preaching hatred in the name of the lord is left as an exercise for the reader.

Posted by: John A Arkansawyer | December 5, 2008 12:58 PM

Arkansas Blog

Another hero passes

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